Though Italy had become the
essential place for Renaissance art, the monarchs in Europe helped to spread
the Renaissance style, and artists moved around and spread their ideas. German Renaissance artists include Matthias
Grünewald and Albrecht Dürer.
Grünewald preferred the dreams and
visions of Gothic art. His painting The
Small Crucifixion provided a visual sermon.
It shows the agony and pain of Christ's death. Christ's body is sickly yellow against a
black backdrop. The whole painting
expresses intense pain and sorrow. Some
people were said to have fainted upon seeing it.
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